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  1. Was the American Revolution a Reflection of British Hubris?

    In celebration of the 4th, I've been reading through a book on the rise and fall of the first British Empire, and itm akes an interesting point. The Revolution reflected a failure of British policy on all fronts. After 1763, there was a feeling across much of Europe that Britain had...
  2. French Canadians join the American Revolution

    I've done some reading on the American Revolution and I always find it fascinating that Quebec didn't, at the very minimum, align with the colonists against England. Particular after France herself got involved in the conflict. I always wonder what would've happened if they had done so...
  3. Challenge: American Intervention in Haitian Revolution

    How do we get America in a position to put down the slave revolts that wracked Haiti during the French Revolution. I was thinking that at the out break of the War of the First Coalition the US declares neutrality but mindful of its alliance with France agrees to protect and supply France's West...
  4. King George III takes the American Revolution seriously

    That's what the title says. So what if King George III took the American Revolution seriously? I read that Britain was unprepared for the American Revolution. Most of its ships were laid up in ordinary, (similar to today's term "in mothballs"), because they were rotten. The vast majority of the...
  5. Wacky events for an alternate American Revolution?

    My friend is doing a simulated "crisis" event on the ARW, and he's looking for alternate (but hopefully at least half-plausible) events to happen. Suggest some monumental events that could have happened in history, but didn't. A specific question: what regions could have decided to either...
  6. AH Challenge - A Radical American Revolution!

    ...as a rather stately affair. With this in mind, here is my challenge: using any means required short of going full-ASB, make the American Revolution as, shall we say, EXTREEEEEEEME as it's fabulous French counterpart! Loony-bin political factions, mass executions, Reign of Terror, La...
  7. Alternate Territory Swaps During the American Revolution

    Okay, during the War of Independence, the great powers conveniently set up a number of proposed territorial resolutions designed to make fodder for alternate historians 200 hundred and thirty years later. amogn them: 1) France sent troops to protect South Africa from the British, or at least...
  8. There Is One Place on Earth Where Man Can Be Free: Sweden and the American Revolution

    ...III This is mostly a historical post, but I think it bears merit on any allohistorical discussion of a world without the American Revolution. It's from an article entitled Sweden and the War of American Independence, by H.A. Barton, in The William and Mary Quartlery, Vol. 23, No. 3, July...
  9. IchBinDieKaiser

    Results of a prolonged American Revolution

    I'm working on a timeline in which the American Revolution continues untill 1789. What prolongs the Revolution is a U.S. defeat at Saratoga in 1777. The American losses discourages France from supporting the Revolution. So France does not get involved, thereby not having going bankrupt funding...
  10. DBWI: What if the 2nd American Revolution failed?

    Is there any the MacArthur lead junta could have suppressed the revolution? Would they have been able to revive the economy at all? What would be the relationship between the USA and the capitalist states of Europe? (ooc. Inspired by Jello Biafra's timeline)
  11. Aelita

    A Red Dawn: American Revolution and Rebirth

    Continued from Reds: A Revolutionary Timeline; this thread will cover the historical period from the end of the Second American Revolution (February, 1934), to the end of this timeline's Second World War. I'd like to humbly ask that any comments on material from before this date be kept in the...
  12. American Monarchy and the French Revolution

    I was thinking...if the US becomes a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic, what effect would that have on the French Revolution. Would the republican Jacobin faction fail to take hold and the moderates' plan of constitutional monarchy survive? Or would the revolution simply be averted...
  13. Morroco, the Barbary Pirates, and the Ottoman Empire join the American Revolution

    As the title says, these nations decide for their own reasons to support the U.S.A. with recognition, financial aide, and military aide in 1776. Morocco's deal is a you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours deal. The Barbary Pirates want basing rights in exchange for their help. The Ottomans...
  14. Which Was More Influencial, The French Revolution or the American Revolution?

    I've been wondering this for a long time, and I'm just not sure... The American Revolution would give rise to possibly the most powerful nation so far, and it could be said that it helped influence the events of the French Revolution. However, the ultimate effects weren't really felt on the...
  15. Butterflies from an Avoided/Defeated American Revolution?

    Now, i am sure this has been asked before, but as we know, most TL's where the American Revolution and Subsequent War are avoided or defeated devulge into "Nixon selling used cars in British North America" style TL's, where a large, single entity called "British North America" goes on to take...
  16. a more violent american revolution

    what if during the american revolution an american patriot blew up parlement and commited other acts of terrism in britan?what would be the effects
  17. TL/AAR Planning Help: French Revolution with a failed American Revolution

    ...up a remake of an AAR I did two years ago. I need a plausible way to make France have a revolution around the same time after the American Revolution fails. So far, I've been thinking perhaps some key figures, most importantly Ben Franklin, flee to France after the defeat. Somewhat on...
  18. American Revolution further north but less south

    How's this an idea for an ARW- the Eddy Rebellion, thanks to greater public support, manages to seize Fort Cumberland. The presence of the British fortress in Halifax prevents the revolutionaries from seizing all of Nova Scotia, but the British are weakened in the area. Ultimately they end up...
  19. American Revolution?

    Any good alternative history pertaining to the American Revolution? I read a lot of books, and haven't come across any on this topic, and I didn't have any luck with a search of the boards. :confused:
  20. AH Challenge: Loyalists are more numerous and successful in the American 'Revolution'

    So, I'm almost finished with a TL in which the US loses the war of independence because of a more dedicated and militant loyalist movement(my ancestors were Tories rather than Patriots, in case you can't tell ;) ). But I haven't been able to figure out how this could come about without a...
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